Ian Bicking
ianbicking.org
Ian Bicking
@ianbicking.org
Software developer in Minneapolis. Working with applications of LLMs. Previously: Mozilla, Meta, Brilliant.org
The quote on this subject in the blog post is downright offensive...
September 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Make the list bigger!
September 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Indeed! AI slop isn't inevitable, it's just so _easy_.

But here's my high-effort poem, written just now by GPT 5 Thinking, with 20 turns of conversation for me to get it started and mostly to refine the result. I think it's pretty good. (Text in alt.)
August 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Life cannot be contained
July 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Here's a paper about what happens to the evaporated water: essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/...

And a map from that showing what portion of evaporation is recycled into rain over land.

In general 70% of evaporated water returns as rain over land, though maybe only 5-15% in the same region.
July 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Results so far for bounding box and segmentation masks on Gemini are quite disappointing. Gemini Pro can sometimes produce a competent bounding box, but Flash cannot. Neither can produce valid image masks.

(First example is Pro, then Flash)
July 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
April 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The many hues present on Claude's update status page is... indicative of the actual experience, unfortunately.
March 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I was talking about AI with my daughter, and mentioned it lying about doing tasks, and she was insistent that AI couldn't lie. Which of course it can...

I tried doing a test in chatgpt but was admonished that it "can’t provide intentional misinformation". But firing up the playground...
January 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I made ChatGPT uncomfortable in the process... whether that makes it better or worse I'm not sure
December 29, 2024 at 4:01 AM
I don't know exactly what you're looking for, as a professional... but it's better at horny squid verse than I am, as an amateur...
December 29, 2024 at 3:44 AM
Thinking a little bit about the graph view from @wattenberger.com's Fish Eyes post: wattenberger.com/thoughts/fis... ... and specifically this concept graph. The concept graph is kind of like wandering Wikipedia, but happening in-place. It got me thinking of a more linear approach 🧵
December 5, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Was literally just making this...
September 5, 2023 at 7:22 PM